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there was a very san Francisco sort of happening today on Market Street. It involved a man in a fluorescent jumpsuit and an eight ft balloon. We're going to see what it was all about after this word from pan american. Those are some of the questions that

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must have gone through the minds of those who are on Market Street at high noon today to satisfy their curiosity as well as yours. The man pushing that balloon is jim file a student at the college of marin. He is in the process of making a

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documentary film on Market Street and he decided on his balloon gimmick for two reasons. One to give him sort of an oddball center of interest And 2nd and more ingenious. He wanted something so distracting that people would forget all about his camera crews. He wanted to

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photograph the people on Market Street unawares and that is what he did. Most people, he reports were curious but friendly to the idea of a man pushing an eight ft plastic balloon around on the sidewalk. San Francisco police if they noticed their coloring, there is apparently

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no city ordinance against giant Williams on the sidewalks of san Francisco. Some people were hostile though a group of picketers thought that he was a provocateur trying to put them on and some people thought it was an advertising stunt and wanted to know what the catch

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was. Some people thought it was arranged by KPI X. It was not the technically minded, wanted to know what was in the balloon and how the seams were made. One man suggested that tile put helium gas in the balloon so that he could soar over Market

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Street and really have a gas. Mm hmm, mm hmm. Mhm. Right away. Mhm. Stop.